Among the official justifications for destroying the hundreds of Palestinian villages were concerns that they “detracted” from the beauty of the landscape and that tourists might ask “unnecessary questions”…

By the time of my visit, the UN had already backed down from carrying out an investigation and the people of Jenin had been left to rebuild their lives and search for their dead largely on their own...

The 260,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem comprise a third of the population, even after decades of Israel gerrymandering the municipal borders and building settlements on every green space in East Jerusalem...